Women Woodland Owners workshop set for March 26

LITTLE ROCK – Keeping the forest in the family will be among the topics on the agenda
for the Women Woodland Owners Workshop set for March 26 at the University of Arkansas
Community College at Hope.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 9 a.m. Registration
is $20 and includes lunch, breaks and materials. To register, contact Tamara Walkingstick,
associate director, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, at 501-671-2346, or twalkingstick@uaex.edu; or Caroll Guffey, 501-672-2147 or guffey@uamont.edu.

“We’re excited to have Allen and Ginny Nipper, the 2013 Arkansas Tree Farmers of the
Year presenting information on how to conduct family meetings,” Walkingstick said.
“The Nippers will be presenting information they’ve learned from their own intergenerational
experience, and it’s all material nearly every family can identify with.”

The afternoon session includes a tour of Jane and Charles’ Purtle’s forest land near
Prescott.

“We’ll learn about their management activities and their approach to handling the
family legacy,” Walkingstick said. The Purtles are certified in the Arkansas Tree
Farmer Program and the Forest Stewardship Council.

The Cooperative Extension Service is part of the University of Arkansas System Division
of Agriculture and offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race,
color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status,
or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer.

By the Cooperative Extension ServiceU of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture